A teacher from a top Auckland school who used the identity of a Kiwi missing in the Australian outback to scam banks out of more than $67,400 will have to pay all the money back and spend his home detention in his home town of Whangarei.
Auckland Grammar School economics, accounting and business studies teacher Rafe Callum Fannin, 36, also took two of his colleagues' driving licences to fraudulently set up bank accounts in fake names.
Between September 2014 and June this year, Fannin swindled $67,408 from banks and finance companies and gambled it away.
His lawyer, Luke Wilson, suggested a reparation figure of more than $6000 would be appropriate, considering Fannin was jobless, but Judge David Harvey ordered the entire amount be repaid.
"This was by no means accidental. It was calculated, well thought out and contained a significant amount of premeditation," Judge Harvey said.